Hello Rich & Co., I have a friend in Sweden, who bought a plant, that has a fungus on it; that I've seen around here. I've dropped it in the photos section,...
Hi Lisa, I have 3 candidates (Genus) for your mystery fungus:TRAMETES, STEREUM or TRICHAPTUM. I think all are found on dead wood. Compare descriptions. Hope...
Newfound Lichen Species Named for Obama LiveScience.com livescience Staff livescience.com – Thu Apr 16, 3:53 pm ET A newly discovered species of lichen - a...
Cladonia cristatella, or British Soldiers, has red apothecia (hence, the Red-Coats). Sam's photo shows tan-colored apothecia. I am still going with C....
If the photo was taken in Chicago I'd say that it looks like Cladonia peziziformis, a fruticose lichen. I am not sure that it grows in Oklahoma, or maybe it...
I wanted to announce our first trip to look for lichens in 2009. It will be held over the weekend of March 28 (Saturday) & 29 (Sunday) 2009. Location is...
Hey Sam, Your orange fungus looks like it may have once been a Chantrelle or a False Chantrelle. It has that bright orange color and that upward trumpet-shape....
Hi everyone, I added a photo to my photo folder today, not sure what they are, but they were growing on the ground in the St. Mihiel East forest preserve near...
Hi, Am I looking at the wrong picture--which part is the star-like moss? I couldn't find it. Margaret M. Glynn Independent Consultant The Body Shop® At...
The star-like plant in John's photo is a moss. With the thick leaves I would say it is a Polytrichum species. The pyxie-cup lichen is a Cladonia. Rich...
Hello Lichen group: I am going to be putting together another "Lichen Weekend" for the Spring/summer of 2008. Let's say end of May, early June. As in the last...
Hi All, A student of mine had a field trip to the Indiana Dunes and collected some twigs with lichen on them. One that caught my eye was unfamiliar to me and...
This pic looked better before I compressed it but would anyone like to take a shot at id-ing these guys? Looks like two different green ones but it's not...
I published the "Lichens of Ten Chicago Parks" last year and in my studies I found 25 lichens at North Park Village. 11 are crustose and 14 are foliose. No...
YES folks the overnighter at McHenry COunty is on. Oct 14-15. We'll visit a few local natural areas, and stay overnight. This is optional - the overnight....
I posted this via email but do not see it on the message list so I am re-posting via yahoo .......... Hi All, Never occurred to me to look for a lichen group...
Directions to Kane County, Illinois FIELD TRIP SUNDAY JULY 2, 2006 10:00 TO 2:00 BRING HAND LENS AND LUNCH AND H2O Corron Farm (owned by Campton Township,...
Hello all, As some of you already know, I'm exploring ways of using lichen to assess air quality in south side Chicago. Over the next six weeks, high school...
Dear Chicago Lichens Group: I am planning a two day overnight trip to Alden in McHenry County, Illinois over the October 14-15 weekend at the Small Waters ...
I just uploaded some new photos to my JPDenk photo album from my recent trip to Kentucky. The new photos are DSC5840 and 5841, Cladonia coniocraea, and a...
Dear Colleagues, With grief I am informing you all that Dr. P.G. Patwardhan, a pioneer Lichenologist of India has passed away on15-05-2006 morning around 10.00...
Just a reminder that the Chicago Lichenological Society will be looking for the lichen flora at Corron Farm in Kane County on Sunday April 30 from 10 am to 2...
Rich, I "developed" a field experience for high-school students that had them estimate lichen density on trees at the CSU campus. Students were given ...
Would anyone have any information on lichen studies for students in ecology courses? I want to offer some kind of lichen study as part of an ecology course. I...
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